Relativistic Moduli Space for Kink Collisions

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.105.065012MaRDI QIDQ6382892zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christoph Adam, N. S. Manton, Katarzyna Oles, Tomasz Romanczukiewicz, Andrzej Wereszczyński

Publication date 12 November 2021

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.105.065012

Abstract: The moduli space approximation to kink dynamics permits a relativistic generalization if the Derrick scaling parameter is used as a collective coordinate. We develop a perturbative approach to the resulting relativistic moduli space by expanding the Derrick scaling parameter about unity and treating the higher-order Derrick modes as new degrees of freedom. This approach allows us to resolve (coordinate) singularities order-by-order, and systematically incorporates relativistic corrections {it perturbatively} in kink scattering. It gives an excellent description of kink-antikink collisions in $ph{i}^4$ field theory already at first order, and at higher order, reproduces the fractal structure in the formation of the final state with an error of only $4\mathrm{\%}$.

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